diff --git a/doc/config.rst b/doc/config.rst
index 6469bfb4b..6bd9a5a80 100644
--- a/doc/config.rst
+++ b/doc/config.rst
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ the `Dublin Core metadata <http://dublincore.org/>`_.
    the optional guide information. See the OPF documentation
    at `<http://idpf.org/epub>`_ for details. If possible, default entries
    for the *cover* and *toc* types are automatically inserted. However,
-   the types can be explicitely overwritten if the default entries are not
+   the types can be explicitly overwritten if the default entries are not
    appropriate. Example::
 
       epub_guide = (('cover', 'cover.html', u'Cover Page'),)
@@ -949,8 +949,8 @@ the `Dublin Core metadata <http://dublincore.org/>`_.
 .. confval:: epub_tocdup
 
    This flag determines if a toc entry is inserted again at the beginning of
-   it's nested toc listing.  This allows easier navitation to the top of
-   a chapter, but can be confusing because it mixes entries of differnet
+   it's nested toc listing.  This allows easier navigation to the top of
+   a chapter, but can be confusing because it mixes entries of different
    depth in one list.  The default value is ``True``.
 
 .. confval:: epub_tocscope
@@ -1146,8 +1146,8 @@ These options influence LaTeX output.
         Additional preamble content, default empty.
      ``'figure_align'``
         Latex figure float alignment, default 'htbp' (here, top, bottom, page).
-        Whenever an image doesn't fit into the current page, it wil be
-        'floated' into the next page but may be preceeded by any other text.
+        Whenever an image doesn't fit into the current page, it will be
+        'floated' into the next page but may be preceded by any other text.
         If you don't like this behavior, use 'H' which will disable floating
         and position figures strictly in the order they appear in the source.
      ``'footer'``
@@ -1415,7 +1415,6 @@ These options influence Texinfo output.
      ``'project'``
      ``'release'``
      ``'title'``
-     ``'direntry'``
 
    .. versionadded:: 1.1
 
diff --git a/doc/devguide.rst b/doc/devguide.rst
index 666822d6b..fef5fbed6 100644
--- a/doc/devguide.rst
+++ b/doc/devguide.rst
@@ -245,11 +245,11 @@ Debugging Tips
   <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/config.html>`_.
 
 * JavaScript stemming algorithms in `sphinx/search/*.py` (except `en.py`) are
-  genereted by
+  generated by this
   `modified snowballcode generator <https://github.com/shibukawa/snowball>`_.
   Generated `JSX <http://jsx.github.io/>`_ files are
   in `this repository <https://github.com/shibukawa/snowball-stemmer.jsx>`_.
-  You can get resulting JavaScript files by the following command:
+  You can get the resulting JavaScript files using the following command:
 
   .. code-block:: bash
 
diff --git a/doc/ext/intersphinx.rst b/doc/ext/intersphinx.rst
index 7997472a7..1daa658a9 100644
--- a/doc/ext/intersphinx.rst
+++ b/doc/ext/intersphinx.rst
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ linking:
 
    This will download the corresponding :file:`objects.inv` file from the
    Internet and generate links to the pages under the given URI.  The downloaded
-   inventory is cached in the Sphinx environment, so it must be redownloaded
+   inventory is cached in the Sphinx environment, so it must be re-downloaded
    whenever you do a full rebuild.
 
    A second example, showing the meaning of a non-``None`` value of the second
diff --git a/doc/ext/math.rst b/doc/ext/math.rst
index 8b2924c79..751a534d2 100644
--- a/doc/ext/math.rst
+++ b/doc/ext/math.rst
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Sphinx.
 
    The default is the ``http://`` URL that loads the JS files from the `MathJax
    CDN <http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/start.html>`_.  If you want MathJax to
-   be available offline, you have to donwload it and set this value to a
+   be available offline, you have to download it and set this value to a
    different path.
 
    The path can be absolute or relative; if it is relative, it is relative to
diff --git a/doc/intl.rst b/doc/intl.rst
index 3363dc50f..fb8c0f9b7 100644
--- a/doc/intl.rst
+++ b/doc/intl.rst
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ There is `sphinx translation page`_ for Sphinx-1.2 documentation.
 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 
-.. [1] See the `GNU gettext utilites
+.. [1] See the `GNU gettext utilities
        <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Introduction>`_
        for details on that software suite.
 .. [2] Because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
diff --git a/doc/theming.rst b/doc/theming.rst
index 73ec9f279..98de74f8c 100644
--- a/doc/theming.rst
+++ b/doc/theming.rst
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ These themes are:
   - **relbar1** (true or false, default true): If this is true, the
     `relbar1` block is inserted in the epub output, otherwise it is omitted.
   - **footer**  (true or false, default true): If this is true, the
-    `footer` block is inserted in the epub output, otherwise it is ommitted.
+    `footer` block is inserted in the epub output, otherwise it is omitted.
 
 Creating themes
 ---------------
diff --git a/doc/tutorial.rst b/doc/tutorial.rst
index cae4c8db1..3339f742c 100644
--- a/doc/tutorial.rst
+++ b/doc/tutorial.rst
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ More topics to be covered
 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 
-.. [#] This is the usual lay-out.  However, :file:`conf.py` can also live in
+.. [#] This is the usual layout.  However, :file:`conf.py` can also live in
        another directory, the :term:`configuration directory`.  See
        :ref:`invocation`.
 
diff --git a/doc/web/quickstart.rst b/doc/web/quickstart.rst
index 1bcd217ed..24fd0a8fa 100644
--- a/doc/web/quickstart.rst
+++ b/doc/web/quickstart.rst
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ must update the websupport package's data::
    support.update_username(old_username, new_username)
 
 *username* should be a unique string which identifies a user, and *moderator*
-should be a boolean representing whether the user has moderation privilieges.
+should be a boolean representing whether the user has moderation privileges.
 The default value for *moderator* is *False*.
 
 An example `Flask <http://flask.pocoo.org/>`_ function that checks whether a